If you don’t like paying taxes . . .
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– Don’t drive on paved streets or highways.
– Don’t fly in an airplane that uses air-traffic controllers.
– Don’t use the court system.
– Don’t call the police when you get robbed.
– Don’t use the Post Office, send all your letters via UPS.
– Don’t ask for a agricultural subsidy.
– Don’t ask for a taxpayer subsidy to do business in a city or state.
– Don’t send your children to public schools.
– Don’t attend a state university.
– Don’t look for a government.
– Don’t run for political office where your salary is paid for by the taxpayers.
– Don’t accept government research findings that subsidize research for your industry.
– Don’t be an airline and expect the government to bail you out.
– Don’t be a car company and expect the government to bail you out.
– Don’t be a steel company and expect the government to bail you out.
– Don’t be a company that pollutes and expect the taxpayer to bail you out.
– Don’t call the fire department.
– Don’t expect federal assistance if a natural disaster destroys your home or business.
– Don’t expect the military to defend your country.
– Don’t visit national parks or hike in national forests.
– Don’t drink, bath or otherwise use the water from municipal water systems.
– Don’t look at or relay a weather report.
– Don’t expect a unit of measure like a Litre of petrol to be a full Litre.
– Don’t expect an elevator to work correctly or not fall.
– Don’t expect a red light to work.
– Don’t expect research into medical problems such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, aging, prostrate, menopause, etc.
– Don’t use the public library.
– Don’t apply for government grants.
– Don’t use your state’s convention centers.
– Don’t go to a state, city or municipal-run airport.
– Don’t ask for rural electrification.
– Don’t drive a car that benefits from government safety regulations.
– Don’t use electricity generated by some government-owned and maintained dam or facility.
– Don’t use currency printed by the RBI.
– Don’t go to a beach kept clean by the state.
– Don’t use public transportation.
– Don’t visit public museums.
– Don’t go hunting, fishing, or camping on government property.
– Don’t cross a bridge.
– Don’t use public restrooms.
– Don’t expect your tap water to be clean and germ free.
– Don’t expect there to be much wildlife left other than rats.
– Don’t eat any food transported on roads.
– Don’t expect any workplace safety standards, labor laws, or minimum wage.
– Don’t expect highway signs.
– Don’t expect laws against murder, theft, etc. (the govt. DEFINES crime).
– Don’t expect convicted criminals to be in prison and off your street.
– Don’t expect the state or county to investigate and/or remove children from neglectful or abusive homes.
One fine day of my life and I get a message from the academic department about a whole day workshop on Disaster management. The very first reaction to such sms is WTF. But that is just out of instinct and we have a habit of saying these three words whenever a message about any acadamic activity come. All being said I came to the class just to see almost everyone there (this is a mandate for all).
